Chicago fishing: Hints of the first fall kings coming to shore among the usual summer patterns

Very rare double catch on a single hook in Plainfield. (Dennis Kunka)

Whispers come of fall kings already coming to shore amid the usual mid-summer patterns and that leads this particularly sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Traditionally, the first king catches on shore tend to come around Aug. 20. See more on the early kings on shore at the report from Park Bait in the Lakefront report below.